Cool, huh? The long and short of it is, Obama KNOWS he's African American. His dad was from Kenya, his mom from Kansas. It's the rest of us who perhaps haven't figured it out and accepted the truth yet. But here it is: We are ALL African Americans, brothers and sisters.

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Politics was defined in an essay by the incomparable Lewis Lapham, at the time managing editor of Harper's magazine. He said, Politics is the continuous argument over who gets to do what to whom, for how long, and against what degree of dissent. It has yet to be said better.